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Yurui Zhang
Yurui Zhang

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What do you do with your old programming books?

I've been trying to clean up my bookshelf at home & my desk in my office recently and noticed I have a lot of outdated programming books - like really old ones - WebMatrix, Angular 1.x, Joomla, Rails 3...

I guess the only sensible thing to do is to recycle them? πŸ€” what do you do with yours?

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Not sure about the rest but there is a special ritual to dispose the Joomla book, I think it involves some holy water and a priest.

I usually avoid books for versioned stuff, usually gets obsolete as soon as I get the book, I think they are watching me and writing in a hurry just to mess with me.

You can make micarta with some resin (a very sturdy material with a lot of uses) or just recycle it.

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Yurui Zhang

LOL.

Well I know most of the programming books become obsolete rather quickly - especially the ones about languages/frameworks. But I still prefer physical books over electronic ones. Maybe I will save them for the summer BBQ gatherings...